Like if you feel like creative and you want to be like Einstein in the morning and start
Ms. Nixon around your sense.
The only reason I would mix around a fragrance is because, so let's use these two, here's
an example, which we're going to blend.
They both share.
Atypical.
Like, they're both about the same in terms of no comments.
the only differences is the only differences are, is that the, this point here, the older
perfume has a couple of different notes too.
It's like three or four differences, same with this one here.
So, you know, they're not too much different from each other, just a couple minor tweaks
to it.
And they're both in the same scent range.
So typically anything that's rich and like kind of like a bourbon or a.
Like, um, you know, what are your slammed that like sung with a bit of depth to other
Coniac fragrance?
You know, they're good to mix together if you want to find like a unique freshness or
whatever.
So I'd say let's just dive into it.
So whenever I'm mixed sense, two things, I always make sure you do the first thing, make
sure that both sense kind of align with each other.
We're not going to take a floral and mix.
He was saying it's like a bourbon.
Cause, I mean, it could work out, but I mean, if you're doing it before you go to work and
it's the first time you're doing it, don't be testing out new things before you go to
like work, do it.
When you have time to experience it, if you don't like it, scrub it off.
The second thing I like to do when I mix a fragrance, you got to know which one's going
to be your top note and which one's going to be your base.
No.
Why would that, why is that important?
Um, so essentially you want to like, so when you look at the different notes in the fragrances
specific base notes and either, or these.
Are going to be important to know as to what you want your base of your mixed fragrance
to be.
So when I mix these two together, Um, my nose, uh, prefers more of a sharper find vanilla
and a bass note because I find it.
Yeah, no, it is better in the base.
It's also saying that as a fragrance where it's done in the skin, you want it to stay
sweeter on the skin.
You don't want to go to muskier to like just weird or whatever.
So, um, this one, the odor perfumes you've on sheets.
It has a nice vanilla in it, and I want the vanilla to be my big stone stuff.
And when I put this guy on top, it's got more of a cocoa on the burning wood.
I want it to be more heart note and it bit more talk.
No, I don't want the burning wood to be more bass note, but the thing is this will develop
into a burning wood and vanilla sweetness, basically.
Okay.
So the base note is kind of like the one you is your favorite when you do, would that be
fair to say yes.
Unless favorite should be your bass note, max, your baseline is what you're going to
smell throughout the, you know, I would say like your top known, this is your first 30
minutes to an hour of where heart notes are kind of a mix of.
The base notes too, because like, you know, I, for fragrances like these, they don't have
like a crazy, no composition, like a creed where you truly notice a heart top and base.
Um, so I would say that I would only focus on top note and base note.
Um, so I would say that, yeah, like, you know, this one is good, more of a better fresher
opening with a better heart note.
And this one is more like heartened base notes.
So yeah.
So first things first.
I always put my base note first on the skin, because I want to layer on top of it.
So we're going to put our base note there with each Yvonne.
She oughta perfume.
So we're going to get the vanillas, the Coniac richness and that leather.
Finally, this has like this kind of sweet, fresh bubblegum mixed in with woods.
Uh, um, you know, that fireplace tight tones, what's like a playful type, uh, cottage.
A bonfire scent is we're going to have the bonfire sent to the top of that on the same
spot.
If you guys want to see the videos of these individually, Zach broken down with me and
went into depth about them, make sure that you check those videos up right there.
And yeah.
So we've got the next on the hand there.
Um, you know, it's going to be a little bit like, you know, we've sprayed a bit of juice
on there.
Just let it dry.
You can blow on it.
And that's another way to make it dry on the skin faster.
Um, Yeah.
So, I mean, you know this, when you make a blend like this, the whole purpose is you
want to make a scent that might and unique to use.
Let's say your buddy has one of these and you have.
A better variety than his collection.
And you want to go out, wear something that's a bit similar.
So you both love the same scent.
Pete want to add to yours to make yourself stand out when you're with him.
So this is a good way to stand out in the crowd, right?
I'm mixing two that are known to be mixed.
Well, um, another reason why I like to mix.
Is, you know, I get personally because in my profession I worked for fragrance brands.
I worked for the LVMH fragrance company and, um, you know, I get bored at work sometimes,
and I just I'll look at a specific fragrance and be like, Hey, I think that these notes
would go really good with that.
Let's try it.
So I'll try it on paper.
If the paper test is good and it shocks my nose, say, all right, next test is skin.
If it smells good on the skin, it goes like fresh, a bit musky, and then still sweetened
the end.
Yeah.
I know.
I've found something that's quite, yeah, I'm good.
So sometimes I'll just show it to clients.
And so then I'll be like, you know, just to pass time, but yeah.
What do you think of this?
And if the reactions are good, then I kind of bring it up to the test daily.
No, of course, of course.
That's, that's a, that's a sign of a true enthusiasm by the way, guys, if you haven't
met someone who's passionate about what they're doing to that extreme, then you haven't met
the right person.
So what I'm going to do one, I smell it now.
Yeah, of course.
We're going head.
We want to smoke the top notes.
So when I tried it earlier on my hands here, Holy shit.
I found that we got like a unique type.
Coniac sweetness, but you get the burning wood lightly in the background of it.
Um, which is nice.
So it's like, I don't know how to this great.
It's like candy sweet, which is, Hey, if you're on a date you want, that's be sweet, but very
masculine and alpha, which is what I find we've added.
Yeah.
A bit more sweetness, but vanilla is a note that you smell more towards the end of a fragrance.
So this vanilla note is going to keep this nice and fresh, but it's going to just.
It's getting to hug air pockets and you're very unique.
It doesn't matter if it's warm or cool outside.
This is perfect.
And Hey, if you're smoking a cigar and you're going to be wearing this layering here.
Perfect.
Yeah, it's a great smell.
But this actually, this is one of my favorite smells that I seen a combination have so far.
Um, I liked the, I liked the blend of the woods.
You smell what the vanilla bean.
As well, I'm a fan of this truly, and this is something like apply on date night, for
sure.
So would you say that your rating has gone up?
Oh, for sure.
Well, here what'd you give it like a nine, we can turn a fragrance that originally we
were given this one, an eight from brother T and then we were also given a 7.5 or I believe
a seven on this one.
So the fact that we've been able to jump up so high to me, nine is crazy.
So, I mean, you know, sometimes I look at these priorities when I look at just one,
I say, well, yes, it's got a twin brother, boom, these are maybe meant to be together.
So you put them together.
Then you've got something that it's truly unique.
And like I said, you know, try to sell it in your own skin, make sure it's they sweet.
And it's sharp and you like the scent, we all have a different well concentration, but
yeah, I wouldn't say that these two were designed to be mixed, honestly.
So I want to ask you a question about blending and anyone out there has a similar questions
I'll be answering, right.
He'll be answering them right now.
So for someone who wants to blend, do you typically blend companies or do you blend
the like fragrant smells cycle?
I sold typically when I blend, I, when I get bored, I'll smell everything.
Right.
Okay.
So if a specific fragrance has a note to it or a specific site to it that I, it hits my
nose and my nose is kind of like, what is that?
And it's just intrigued by it.
What I'll do is.
Um, if I know it needs a bit more, something to be more perfected, I'll find through what
I've smelled earlier.
Or I just, I feel like I'm well rounded.
I've smelled everything in the store.
I know it'll be good with it.
And then I'll try it together on paper.
If that smells good, then I think I found something, but I mean, specific brands also
use different quality ingredients.
Most of them all go for the same price, but most things that, you know, consumers don't
know is that the actual quality of the products it's actually very different.
When you look at an LVMH product like these and you compare it to let's say, um, at Calvin
Klein, for example, which is owned by Cody Canada, right?
Cody Canada is nowhere on the prestige level of LVMH.
So when you look at where the ingredients were sourced versus the Calvin Klein, fragrances,
Calvin Klein did not get all their ingredients from a garden in France.
Giovanni Shi Dior grillin all share from the same garden in France there, LVMH will not
put their name on a brand that does not speak high end quality of life.
So they want to show off through their brand portfolio.
That they display the most beautiful aspects of a luxurious life.
So that is why wouldn't I buy anything that is LVMH Giovanni, she didn't, or ghrelin.
It speaks to those luxury just values.
It's almost like I can see myself at a party in a mansion with, you know, people got, have
expensive taste, for sure.
So, I mean, you know, if you want to wear Gucci or any of that Gucci or fascia fragrance,
two separate houses.
You know, I know when I worked Yamanashi Dior Chanel creed, these brands are all owned by
their company.
They're not two separate houses.
I see.
Wow.
So it's really important to blend it with the same thing, same families or high quality
ingredients.
It would be like me saying, I'm trying to use food as an example here.
If you were to let's say, make a smoothie.
You were to go to Sophia in Canada, let's say you were to go to long, goes.
You were to get some other fresh produce.
You're gonna make a smoothie with 50% of those ingredients.
And then you were to go to let's say whole foods or no, even let's let's compare something
good to something bad.
So you go to longbows.
You get their fruit ingredients and then you go, you get the other 50% of the smoothie,
fruit ingredients from let's say like food basics or, you know, a store that is more
focused on box through to post to fresh foods, like produce Walmart, even Walmart, right?
So you get Walmart produce 50% and then long goes, you put those two ingredients together.
So 50% for, from Los angles, 50% from Walmart.
That they're not going to Happify each other.
Yeah, it makes sense.
Cause I do, I don't even buy like meat from like Walmart, for example, I stopped writing
that long time ago.
I go to whole foods for meat.
The quality is different.
A hundred percent.
It makes sense when it comes down to the relationship of colognes, right?
Yeah.
So I mean like, you know, if you're going to look at it from, cause I guess, you know,
these aren't, they're grown in specific ways of high quality fruits and stuff are grown.
So I mean like, you know, I guess.
When you see that a brand has put X amount of time to ensure that their ingredient list
is.
You know, very, um, very like potent and up to standard.
And, you know, there are for sure, a couple of synthetics in, uh, I'd say mass markets.
Um, but I mean, synthetics, the reason why they have to do it again, because if every
single agree in this was real, the price would have to be like $300.
So, and this goes for every single brand.
So, I mean, create, this is why it's also expensive because they're going to be putting
in.
You know, nothing synthetic, but I mean, synthetics doesn't mean bad.
So let's say you take a synthetic, um, Ambergris note versus the real stuff.
The synthetic Ambergris note, because it's a molecule and it's something created in a
lab.
It's always going to be consistent every single year.
Every single batch, it will be the same when you cut something natural.
Every wheel is different, the same way that people are different.
So, you know, it's just like, if you expect a whale.
To be producing the same thing as his brother, you know, in the well next door or whatever.
Yeah.
You know, it's just, they just, it's rare.
It's not going to happen.
They'll be the same, like 95% identical, but, but it'd be uniquely different.
Yeah.
So, I mean, yeah, that's what I have to say about these guys here, dude.
This is awesome.
Blending colognes is a great, a great start as well.
I said, actually, it's more of someone who's a dads, but at the same time, it's a great
experiment in him for me to be a part of.
So I think you got again, man.
Yeah, for sure.
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